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Spectral Library splib06a Sample Description

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TITLE: Colemanite GDS143 DESCRIPT

DOCUMENTATION_FORMAT: MINERAL

SAMPLE_ID: GDS143

MINERAL_TYPE: Borate

MINERAL: Colemanite

FORMULA: Ca2B6O11*5H2O

FORMULA_HTML: Ca2B6O11•5H2O

COLLECTION_LOCALITY: Boron, California

ORIGINAL_DONOR: Jim Crowley

CURRENT_SAMPLE_LOCATION: USGS Reston, Virginia

ULTIMATE_SAMPLE_LOCATION: USGS Reston, Virginia

SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION:

Spectrum originally published in: Crowley, J.K., 1991, Visible and Near-Infrared (0.4 - 2.5µm) Reflectance Spectra of Playa Evaporite Minerals: Journal of Geophysical Research, vol 96, no.B10, p. 16,231-16,240.

IMAGE_OF_SAMPLE:
NO PHOTO

END_SAMPLE_DESCRIPTION.

XRD_ANALYSIS:

Not Available

END_XRD_ANALYSIS.

COMPOSITIONAL_ANALYSIS_TYPE: None # XRF, EM(WDS), ICP(Trace), WChem

COMPOSITION_TRACE: None

COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION:

END_COMPOSITION_DISCUSSION.

MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION:

END_MICROSCOPIC_EXAMINATION.

SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION:

END_SPECTROSCOPIC_DISCUSSION.

SPECTRAL_PURITY: 1b2b3b4_ # 1= 0.2-3, 2= 1.5-6, 3= 6-25, 4= 20-150 microns

LIB_SPECTRA_HED: where Wave Range Av_Rs_Pwr Comment
LIB_SPECTRA: splib04a r 1195 0.2-3.0µm 200 g.s.=
LIB_SPECTRA: splib05a r 2114 0.2-3.0µm 200 g.s.=
LIB_SPECTRA: splib06a r 6019 g.s.=
LIB_SPECTRA: splib06a r 6030 g.s.=